From autobiographical works like “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” to her plays and poetry ... Below, you'll find some of Maya Angelou's best quotes about life, love, selfhood and motivation.

From being abandoned by her parents at just four years old to becoming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic figures, Maya Angelou lived ... and recited a poem at Bill Clinton’s Presidential ...

On what would have been the writer and activist’s 90th birthday, we look back at some of her most life-affirming quotes. The writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

She then ended the speech by reciting an extract from Still I Rise, crediting it to “my favourite poet, Maya Angelou." When he decided to have a poem read as part of his inauguration as US ...

Maya Angelou sadly passed away in 2014 ... this Brooklyn based The Black Girl project performed her 1986 poem The Black Family Pledge. The piece was written as an impassioned plea for unity ...